Abstract

We examine the effect of random horizontal flows on the dispersion relation of high-degree solar f modes. We follow the approach of Murawski and Roberts (Astron. Astrophys.272, 595, 1993), addressing some limitations of that paper, and extending the results to include damping and to apply for a general turbulent spectrum. We find a reduction in frequency below the classical result that is about three times that observed. For large wavenumber the damping rate is larger than the frequency correction by a factor of the order of the nondimensional wavenumber, which appears to be consistent with observation.